Medical Assistant - Salina Area Technical School

Medical Assistant from Salina Area Technical School is a Campus Associate Health Aide degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Medical assistants perform tasks to help keep the offices of physicians, and other health practitioners, laboratories, clinics, hospitals, surgery centers, and other organizations such as American Red Cross Blood Banks running smoothly. They can perform administrative tasks like updating and filing medical records and arranging for hospital admissions as well as other general office procedures like managing multi-line phones and patient waiting room. Common clinical tasks also include taking medical histories and recording vital signs, explaining treatment procedures to patients, preparing patients for examinations, collecting specimens and performing basic laboratory tests, and sterilizing medical instruments. They instruct patients about medications and diets, prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician, telephone prescriptions to a pharmacy, draw blood, prepare patients for x-rays, take electrocardiograms, give shots, remove sutures, and change dressings. Career Opportunities: Medical Assistants work in many different health care settings such as Hospitals, Emergency Clinics, Labratories, Pharmicies, Specialty Doctors Offices. View more details on Salina Area Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Aide courses.